Here we have another attack upon the supernatural events surrounding the
death of the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary. The KJV states that the sun “was
darkened.” The words “was darkened” are in the passive voice in the Greek.
It is one word and because it is in the passive voice it means that the sun
is receiving the action. The sun was being supernaturally darkened by God.
God did the darkening and the sun received the action of that darkening.
When we compare this to the modern versions, the underlying Greek word used
there is the one we get the word “eclipse” from. The word eclipse actually
means “to omit, fail, of have some mind of defect.” Basically, what the
modern versions are teaching is that the sun was eclipsed or had failed.
They take the supernatural action of God on the sun and reduce it to a
natural occurrence such as an eclipse. They reduce another significant
aspect of the crucifixion of Christ. The Gnostics did not want to see Jesus
as God so they have done everything to reduce Him to just another teacher.
This is why the modern versions are dangerous because if Jesus is not God,
then none of us reading this post can ever be saved.